Poll: Death Penalty - Yay or Nay

Should the death penalty be reinstated?

  • Yes

    Votes: 321 42.6%

  • No

    Votes: 432 57.4%
  • Total voters
    753
No. As much as we could argue that some might deserve it, like mass murderers where the evidence is overwhelming against them, there's always the chance that an innocent person could be executed for a crime they didn't commit.

A person wrongly jailed still has the hope of being freed someday and their sentence overturned. No chance of that once their dead.
 
John40 said:
I don't need to watch the telly I worked in the prison service for 26 years, I can't see where I said that they are fully staffed and don't have any mentally ill prisoners or are well funded.
All those things are true, my post was simply that sex offenders don't have a harder time then other prisoners.
Rant away though.
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Well 'if' you worked in a prison for 26 years I struggle to see how you can describe the experience as a 'charmed life'.
From what I've seen in multiple documentaries it looks terrifying and the last place I'd want to be.

Also like it or not but pedophiles have every right to be treated exactly the same as every other inmate and it's the prisons duty to keep them safe whilst incarcerated
 
C.R.A.Z.Y said:
Well 'if' you worked in a prison for 26 years I struggle to see how you can describe the experience as a 'charmed life'.
From what I've seen in multiple documentaries it looks terrifying and the last place I'd want to be.

Also like it or not but pedophiles have every right to be treated exactly the same as every other inmate and it's the prisons duty to keep them safe whilst incarcerated
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Don't you normally tell people not to believe what they see in the media?
 
Dis86 said:
Don't you normally tell people not to believe what they see in the media?
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No but to be skeptical and use critical thinking.
Considering the documentaries had taken cameras into the prisons and filmed the horrific events it was a pretty solid and reliable source with little to no bias added.
 
C.R.A.Z.Y said:
Well 'if' you worked in a prison for 26 years I struggle to see how you can describe the experience as a 'charmed life'.
From what I've seen in multiple documentaries it looks terrifying and the last place I'd want to be.

Also like it or not but pedophiles have every right to be treated exactly the same as every other inmate and it's the prisons duty to keep them safe whilst incarcerated
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It is a charmed life in respect that the poster I answered thought sex offenders had a really hard time in prison but it's just the same as every other prisoner.

TV shows on prisons as any prison officer will tell you are wildly exaggerated, like every reality show they only want to show the bad bits. When it's all put together it seems as if there is an incident every 5 mins which isn't the case.

You say it's terrifying and you wouldn't want to be there, well that's understandable as it's certainly intimidating and some staff simply give up right at the start, but others have no problem and make the best of it.
When we had Police in they always used to say "I couldn't do your job" and I always though I wouldn't want to be a copper, that was because we didn't fully understand each others job.
 
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John40 said:
It is a charmed life in respect that the poster I answered thought sex offenders had a really hard time in prison but it's just the same as every other prisoner.
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I remember hearing stories from someone in prison for accidently killing a child and had threats to his life on a weekly basis, glass in his food and shards of razor blades in the soap. This was late 80s tho
 
We live in a world where unwanted innocent babies are killed, so criminals convicted of horrible crimes shouldn't be a problem to kill in comparison.
 
I always struggle with the idea of the death penalty as I end up - personally - focussing on the wrong person. I.e. The guilty. I couldn't give a toss if somebody guilty of terrible crimes is hung, drawn, quarted, set fire to, subject to Kerry katona etc.

My choice on being averse to the death penalty is nothing to do with the rights of the guilty, and everything to do with the rights of the innocent.

We make mistakes. If you accept the death penalty you ultimately accept the state sanctioned killing of an innocent - my conscience is not OK with that.
 
I agree with Dis, I've changed views (and may do again), I'm slightly against but do have a firm belief that not everyone deserves life.
 
Where there is undeniable proof someone is guilty, and the crime is murder/rape/child molesting, then yes.
 
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